It isn't that they can't but for a device meant to fit in your pocket, should they? Remember the Note 7 battery catching on fire, because everything was so jammed pack that they didn't account for the battery to expand. These devices are made to a high tolerance levels, and are jam packed with stuff.
I am willing to think those headphone ports which are a lot of empty space are an engineering nightmare. And to make it waterproof, having to add a mm gasket around it would just take up more space that can be used for an extra 20 minutes of battery life, improved reception on the phone bigger and faster CPU....
I work in software development, I get into many arguments where I choose not to add a particular feature, it isn't because I can't but because I shouldn't. Often because it will make the product difficult to manage, be a large programming effort for a minor payoff, and just have the developers in the future go what the heck is this code for, it seems to be used for one particular feature that isn't used anymore. But we need to make sure it doesn't break.
Each US State has its own unique needs. We have some Rich States, California, New York, Texas... we have some poor states Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico...
You point out the successful EU countries, however you left out Italy, Greek and Spain who are struggling to afford universal healthcare.
The States still have a lot of control over its healthcare policies, so single payer may be constitutionally illegal in the US, and each state will need different amount of funding, that isn't necessarily proportional with its population or area.
New Mexico for example is a large state (in area), with a rather low population, who isn't overly wealthy. The population will need local healthcare facilities, however due to the states demographics they cannot be economically effective. Morally we should have some of the richer states help maintain the Health infrastructure in areas where it is less effective, to keep the population healthy. However in a democracy, there will be a lot of people see this as a waste and will try to put a stop to it. Bridges to nowhere, or in this case. Hospitals in the middle of nowhere.
It isn't as malfunctioning as people are lead to believe. What is reported are the problems, and the sad cases where people fall threw the gaps in the system. However Most Americans get health insurance at a discounted rate, and their employer pays for part of it, and you pay for part of it out of your paycheck (pre-tax) Depending on which state, we can have different choices on insurances to choose from, so we can choose to pay less out of our paycheck, but pay more upfront, or agree to pay certain amount until we hit a limit then the insurance company pays the rest.
Being people are paying more for services, they are more picky on their health care they can choose. So Health Care institutions invest in the latestest medical technology, procedures, they work hard to be available for the patients and give treatments rather quickly. The biggest problem with socialized medicine is long wait times for non-emergancy procedures, with sometimes rundown hospitals.
This system works for most Americans (hence why there is so much debate around fixing it).
I am not implying they are not serious problems in the system.
There is Government offered insurances Medicaid, and Medicare, for the people who are retired, under long term disability, or impoverished. but there is a gap between people who are eligibility and those who can afford insurance by themselves (working poor). The Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) started to address this problem however couldn't get prices low enough to make it worth it.
What caused these high prices? Well it is actually mostly the Government insurances. Thinking they are tough negotiators they set the prices to about 1/3 of the listed cost. This in turn caused the health care institutions to raise their prices, where private insurance companies took the brunt of it. Then the private insurance companies wanted to be more inline with what the government was paying, so it cause the prices to increase even further.
Well the price is closer to $25 for that. However recording Smoking status isn't normally directly charged as it is classified on medical history. The doctor will actually need to do something other then recording your status to get paid for it. So if you said Yes, and the doctor helps gives you a plan to help stop smoking then you will get charged $25 for it.
As a consumer of medical services, you also get an EOB (Explanation of Benefit) or sometimes called a Superbill. Which itemizes your charges where if you find a problem you can debate for it to be taken off. Also what a lot of people don't realize if you are have a large balance, you can also call the medical service and negotiate a better price probably bringing it to 1/3 of its original price.
The thing is while I do miss a 3.5mm port as well. Not as much I like having my device waterproof. or trying to clean gunk, pocket fluff, from the slot. It is a case of a trade-off vs rewards. Heck I would love for my phone to have HDMI or a VGA connector, USB 3 port... But I have a laptop for the real usage, with all these crazy ports. I use my phone, mostly for basic internet searches, emails, text and sometimes I will make a phone call. We forget that this device is not a PC replacement.
Americans are often way too cautious on the cleanliness of food. A street vendor vs a higher end chain restaurant, you have roughly the same shot on getting food poisoning. A clean stainless steel stove vs a semi-rusted cart really doesn't effect how well the food is prepared or its general safety. Often at the higher quality places, the food is actually more dangerous because the Chiefs will often strive to get the food right at the safe limit level where often you will get uncooked meat, or at an unsafe temperature. Vs. say a random Hotdog cart, where you have an overcooked hotdog that has been cooking for much longer then needed.
Many food we eat have their taste based on the process of bacteria, fungal, and other chemical reactions based on the previous life forms decaying after death.
However in terms of cost. Unless you are going to the grocery store and cooking at home, You are going to be paying more for the service. When I got laid off in 2008, I needed to save money until I got a job (a week later) but I bought a full chicken for $5.00 and I had dinner for a week, baked it, saved some of the leftovers for sandwiches, boiled down the bones and made soup, with some veggies. But that took a lot of work and planning.
Then who is responsible for getting people out of their situation.
We really don't have any, the Justice System finds the people in desperate situations, then they go an punish them. Who is finding people with these problems and fixing them before there is a problem? No one. We don't have investigators finding people who have slipped threw the cracks and are suffering where some basic services can get them out of their slump.
Because the Justice System is intent on finding such people, they have the responsibility to help them. It may not be their job, but they own it now.
I general see the Library moving form a warehouse of used books, which it lends, to a service where it helps guide people to information it is looking for, as well with a community (state, local government,...) funded service that will allow its members to get past a good set of paywalls (such as access to academic journals), this is where the true value is in. Not the row after row of smelly old books, while I am sure some people are nostalgic to the idea of the physical book library. It value to society is much greater as a service then a warehouse.
That is why I allow cats to walk over my keyboard. I just open up a Hex editor let my cats do the work. So far they have trained me to feed them, keep their food dishes full, and sit perfectly still on cold days. I expect in 50 years, I will be coded to a level where I could sit there and watch the events judging everyone with disapproval.
The thing is you can use this excuse to explain anything bad people do, especially it is correlated with poverty. Gang Violence, Drugs, Environmental Damage...
Very few people wake up in the morning and go, I think I will be a negative overall impact on society. However society will often get in the way and force us to make choices for our benefit, because of lack of other good options.
The biggest problem is the Justice Systems will more likely punish people for breaking laws, vs trying to get them out of the catch 22 situations.
I still fail to see why my educational records in elementary school would be any value. Every year my teachers would say, You will not be able to make it threw the next level of schooling. (They stopped telling me that in Grad School) Mainly due to the fact that I have mild dyslexia, and my writing (still) sucks, where if I am able to express my thoughts via other media I do actually very well. Also I see a lot of A students in my Facebook friends who are in much worse conditions then I am, and are barely making it. Being that the Data is over 10 years old, who know what the kids are doing now.
However the problem isn't globalism. Because you are even explaining how all these countries are failing their manufacturing workers, by playing the "Race to the bottom" game. There has been growth in US manufacturing, mainly due to investments in technology. The US let its manufacturing infrastructure slide, the US has been and still is good at making BIG Items. Cars, Trucks, Industrial equipment. Asia once rebuilt after WWII, had took on making small things. The US had no problem with this, because small things were the cheap stuff that they couldn't get staff to run an efficient company anyways, and BIg things were was all the money.
However as we moved from industrial to technology economy. The small things were no longer toys and trinkets. But vital parts of the economy. And Asia manufacturing was prepped to make such tiny things. While the US still likes to make big things. The US can try to make small things with limited success, however it doesn't have the support infrastructure for it, so it is more expensive. Employee wages are only a minor part of the equation.
Without globalization the United States probably wouldn't be a technology innovation hub as it is today, and we would probably be in a much worse situation. Because globalization beyond expanding worker base to different countries, it also expands the number of customers by almost 20 times.
I am trying to figure what is so valuable of 10 years of school district data? Perhaps some bank information to pay teachers with direct deposit. What are you planning to do, blackmail students to show they were put into detention 10 years ago, for fighting or talking up to a teacher. Or the fact that you had failed English back in 2001. Most of the data in a school is public information anyways.
And this is why Retail stores try to "rip you off"
Lets get this down first. A company that is going to sell you something, is going to sell it as a price where after all expenses they will make a profit from it. So I don't want to hear why am I paying $500 for $30 worth of parts nonsense.
Retail stores try to keep a liberal return policy mostly to keep the customers happy. Because no one like buying a product that they didn't want or was broken when they opened the box. (I remember CompUSA giving me a hassle when I returned a 28.8bps internal modem. Because the maker decided to cut off the jumpers for the port and IRQ settings to make it a Win95 Plug and Play modem. As a Linux user I was pissed because I wanted to set it up just right, and not have the software guess for me. Then CompUSA gave me such a hassle. Until I pointed at the box showing the Picture on the box had jumpers and the actual device didn't. Now because I had to go threw that much hassle for a return, I no longer had much return business.
However returns cost the business money, and Remember the first rule of business to make profit. So the more you scam the company, the higher the prices are and the more you will get scammed. The company will setup the game for it to always win. So for your case, they may find that you are cheating the system and finally reject your return.
Well it isn't the Republicans Fault, there is a global trend towards nationalism, and regressing back into the old traditional ways, even if we don't know what they are, or why they were followed to begin with.
There are a lot of stresses happening to world society today, many of them are bigger then any one country and these problems are not limited to particular borders. These complex problems are way too abstract for average citizen. So our primal urge of when there is a problem that we cannot confront, Hide in a deep dark cave and close the opening is in place. This urge means things like closed borders, doubling down on traditions, grouping together with people most similar to yourself. And basically try to reset society back to a time where you had felt good with.
The problem is our instincts are not the best course of action for the problem. It is like an opossum playing dead on a busy street. These are problems that require work, planning, sacrifice and thought to solve. Not a gut feeling.
But because it is so stressful many people gut feeling is a strong motivation.
Now in America Row v Wade and the Abortion debate with Region (a source strongly tied to old traditions) Democrats decided to go on the Pro-Choice side, while the Republicans went on the Pro-Life side. This connected many of the religious groups to the Republicans. Which lead to a lot of people who value traditions and the old way to that party. Turing its culture to what we see today.
The problem is in the US we mostly raise Horses as Pets, some farmers use them for utility purposes, such as ranching, but that can be replaced with ATV, however they keep Horses for mostly personal reasons, So eating them just seems wrong.
Except it is easy to turn up the marketing so everyone would want it. Being the amount of meat you can get from one whale, it makes them a rather profitable target for hunting. The profit from a caught whale is worth upgrading a normal fishing ship to a whaling ship.
Exactly. Unfortunately a lot of people who see the greats who break the rules, think they shouldn't follow them as well, and produce crap, because they don't understand the foundation on where to go. And others who are so strict on the rules, they lock themselves into the structure vs what is needed.
This is true for almost any topic, Programming, Music, Ligature, Public Speaking....
Steve Jobs was one of the great public speakers. He went on stage with a turtle neck, not a suite. (He use to wear a suite earlier in his career). Now one of the rules for public speaking is to dress professionally. But jobs broke that rule. Why? Jobs knew what he was doing. He needed to separate Apple from the other computer companies. He needed to shows Apples trend towards the minimalist design. So he ditched the suite to help communicate that direction with Apple. This works for Job, but it wouldn't work if the CEO of IBM did it (even if he did it first). You need to know the rules, and if you are going to break them then you need to know why and how to do such. Notice how Job put in the Turtle Neck not a t-shirt he still needed a degree of professionalism (business causal) look like an artist, not a bum.
Not necessarily. I think it is a good point that not all things can be safely studied and evaluated. Because of the morality of such choices. For example Animal Testing. Different animals react differently to drugs, there could be a safe drug that cures a deadly illness in humans, that would just kill a rodent. But we cannot start testing on humans especially if shown would kill a rodent. Proper science without the bonds of ethics, would jump straight to people and see what the results are. Pushing a person from an airplane without a parachute, so you have a baseline on the safety of a parachute. That way we have strict evidence. However following the bounds of ethics there are some things we cannot truly identify.
This goes the same with politicians when talking about science. There "just isn't enough evidence" excuse, is often because to have enough evidence the problem would be impossible to fix.
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How much more battery life can you get with that extra space?
It isn't that they can't but for a device meant to fit in your pocket, should they?
Remember the Note 7 battery catching on fire, because everything was so jammed pack that they didn't account for the battery to expand. These devices are made to a high tolerance levels, and are jam packed with stuff.
I am willing to think those headphone ports which are a lot of empty space are an engineering nightmare. And to make it waterproof, having to add a mm gasket around it would just take up more space that can be used for an extra 20 minutes of battery life, improved reception on the phone bigger and faster CPU....
I work in software development, I get into many arguments where I choose not to add a particular feature, it isn't because I can't but because I shouldn't. Often because it will make the product difficult to manage, be a large programming effort for a minor payoff, and just have the developers in the future go what the heck is this code for, it seems to be used for one particular feature that isn't used anymore. But we need to make sure it doesn't break.
Each US State has its own unique needs. We have some Rich States, California, New York, Texas... we have some poor states Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico...
You point out the successful EU countries, however you left out Italy, Greek and Spain who are struggling to afford universal healthcare.
The States still have a lot of control over its healthcare policies, so single payer may be constitutionally illegal in the US, and each state will need different amount of funding, that isn't necessarily proportional with its population or area.
New Mexico for example is a large state (in area), with a rather low population, who isn't overly wealthy. The population will need local healthcare facilities, however due to the states demographics they cannot be economically effective. Morally we should have some of the richer states help maintain the Health infrastructure in areas where it is less effective, to keep the population healthy. However in a democracy, there will be a lot of people see this as a waste and will try to put a stop to it. Bridges to nowhere, or in this case. Hospitals in the middle of nowhere.
It isn't as malfunctioning as people are lead to believe. What is reported are the problems, and the sad cases where people fall threw the gaps in the system.
However Most Americans get health insurance at a discounted rate, and their employer pays for part of it, and you pay for part of it out of your paycheck (pre-tax)
Depending on which state, we can have different choices on insurances to choose from, so we can choose to pay less out of our paycheck, but pay more upfront, or agree to pay certain amount until we hit a limit then the insurance company pays the rest.
Being people are paying more for services, they are more picky on their health care they can choose. So Health Care institutions invest in the latestest medical technology, procedures, they work hard to be available for the patients and give treatments rather quickly. The biggest problem with socialized medicine is long wait times for non-emergancy procedures, with sometimes rundown hospitals.
This system works for most Americans (hence why there is so much debate around fixing it).
I am not implying they are not serious problems in the system.
There is Government offered insurances Medicaid, and Medicare, for the people who are retired, under long term disability, or impoverished. but there is a gap between people who are eligibility and those who can afford insurance by themselves (working poor). The Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) started to address this problem however couldn't get prices low enough to make it worth it.
What caused these high prices? Well it is actually mostly the Government insurances. Thinking they are tough negotiators they set the prices to about 1/3 of the listed cost. This in turn caused the health care institutions to raise their prices, where private insurance companies took the brunt of it. Then the private insurance companies wanted to be more inline with what the government was paying, so it cause the prices to increase even further.
Well the price is closer to $25 for that. However recording Smoking status isn't normally directly charged as it is classified on medical history. The doctor will actually need to do something other then recording your status to get paid for it. So if you said Yes, and the doctor helps gives you a plan to help stop smoking then you will get charged $25 for it.
As a consumer of medical services, you also get an EOB (Explanation of Benefit) or sometimes called a Superbill. Which itemizes your charges where if you find a problem you can debate for it to be taken off. Also what a lot of people don't realize if you are have a large balance, you can also call the medical service and negotiate a better price probably bringing it to 1/3 of its original price.
The thing is while I do miss a 3.5mm port as well. Not as much I like having my device waterproof. or trying to clean gunk, pocket fluff, from the slot.
It is a case of a trade-off vs rewards. Heck I would love for my phone to have HDMI or a VGA connector, USB 3 port... But I have a laptop for the real usage, with all these crazy ports. I use my phone, mostly for basic internet searches, emails, text and sometimes I will make a phone call. We forget that this device is not a PC replacement.
So they have Hotdogs in India too. Good to know.
Please explain?
Americans are often way too cautious on the cleanliness of food. A street vendor vs a higher end chain restaurant, you have roughly the same shot on getting food poisoning. A clean stainless steel stove vs a semi-rusted cart really doesn't effect how well the food is prepared or its general safety. Often at the higher quality places, the food is actually more dangerous because the Chiefs will often strive to get the food right at the safe limit level where often you will get uncooked meat, or at an unsafe temperature. Vs. say a random Hotdog cart, where you have an overcooked hotdog that has been cooking for much longer then needed.
Many food we eat have their taste based on the process of bacteria, fungal, and other chemical reactions based on the previous life forms decaying after death.
However in terms of cost. Unless you are going to the grocery store and cooking at home, You are going to be paying more for the service. When I got laid off in 2008, I needed to save money until I got a job (a week later) but I bought a full chicken for $5.00 and I had dinner for a week, baked it, saved some of the leftovers for sandwiches, boiled down the bones and made soup, with some veggies. But that took a lot of work and planning.
Then who is responsible for getting people out of their situation.
We really don't have any, the Justice System finds the people in desperate situations, then they go an punish them. Who is finding people with these problems and fixing them before there is a problem? No one. We don't have investigators finding people who have slipped threw the cracks and are suffering where some basic services can get them out of their slump.
Because the Justice System is intent on finding such people, they have the responsibility to help them. It may not be their job, but they own it now.
Says a reliable source of Anonymous Coward.
I general see the Library moving form a warehouse of used books, which it lends, to a service where it helps guide people to information it is looking for, as well with a community (state, local government, ...) funded service that will allow its members to get past a good set of paywalls (such as access to academic journals), this is where the true value is in.
Not the row after row of smelly old books, while I am sure some people are nostalgic to the idea of the physical book library. It value to society is much greater as a service then a warehouse.
That is why I allow cats to walk over my keyboard. I just open up a Hex editor let my cats do the work. So far they have trained me to feed them, keep their food dishes full, and sit perfectly still on cold days.
I expect in 50 years, I will be coded to a level where I could sit there and watch the events judging everyone with disapproval.
The thing is you can use this excuse to explain anything bad people do, especially it is correlated with poverty. Gang Violence, Drugs, Environmental Damage...
Very few people wake up in the morning and go, I think I will be a negative overall impact on society. However society will often get in the way and force us to make choices for our benefit, because of lack of other good options.
The biggest problem is the Justice Systems will more likely punish people for breaking laws, vs trying to get them out of the catch 22 situations.
It is still tourism that is the problem. It just isn't the Tourist who are the problem.
I still fail to see why my educational records in elementary school would be any value.
Every year my teachers would say, You will not be able to make it threw the next level of schooling. (They stopped telling me that in Grad School) Mainly due to the fact that I have mild dyslexia, and my writing (still) sucks, where if I am able to express my thoughts via other media I do actually very well. Also I see a lot of A students in my Facebook friends who are in much worse conditions then I am, and are barely making it.
Being that the Data is over 10 years old, who know what the kids are doing now.
However the problem isn't globalism. Because you are even explaining how all these countries are failing their manufacturing workers, by playing the "Race to the bottom" game. There has been growth in US manufacturing, mainly due to investments in technology. The US let its manufacturing infrastructure slide, the US has been and still is good at making BIG Items. Cars, Trucks, Industrial equipment. Asia once rebuilt after WWII, had took on making small things. The US had no problem with this, because small things were the cheap stuff that they couldn't get staff to run an efficient company anyways, and BIg things were was all the money.
However as we moved from industrial to technology economy. The small things were no longer toys and trinkets. But vital parts of the economy. And Asia manufacturing was prepped to make such tiny things. While the US still likes to make big things. The US can try to make small things with limited success, however it doesn't have the support infrastructure for it, so it is more expensive. Employee wages are only a minor part of the equation.
Without globalization the United States probably wouldn't be a technology innovation hub as it is today, and we would probably be in a much worse situation. Because globalization beyond expanding worker base to different countries, it also expands the number of customers by almost 20 times.
I am trying to figure what is so valuable of 10 years of school district data? Perhaps some bank information to pay teachers with direct deposit.
What are you planning to do, blackmail students to show they were put into detention 10 years ago, for fighting or talking up to a teacher. Or the fact that you had failed English back in 2001. Most of the data in a school is public information anyways.
And this is why Retail stores try to "rip you off"
Lets get this down first. A company that is going to sell you something, is going to sell it as a price where after all expenses they will make a profit from it. So I don't want to hear why am I paying $500 for $30 worth of parts nonsense.
Retail stores try to keep a liberal return policy mostly to keep the customers happy. Because no one like buying a product that they didn't want or was broken when they opened the box. (I remember CompUSA giving me a hassle when I returned a 28.8bps internal modem. Because the maker decided to cut off the jumpers for the port and IRQ settings to make it a Win95 Plug and Play modem. As a Linux user I was pissed because I wanted to set it up just right, and not have the software guess for me. Then CompUSA gave me such a hassle. Until I pointed at the box showing the Picture on the box had jumpers and the actual device didn't. Now because I had to go threw that much hassle for a return, I no longer had much return business.
However returns cost the business money, and Remember the first rule of business to make profit. So the more you scam the company, the higher the prices are and the more you will get scammed. The company will setup the game for it to always win. So for your case, they may find that you are cheating the system and finally reject your return.
Well it isn't the Republicans Fault, there is a global trend towards nationalism, and regressing back into the old traditional ways, even if we don't know what they are, or why they were followed to begin with.
There are a lot of stresses happening to world society today, many of them are bigger then any one country and these problems are not limited to particular borders. These complex problems are way too abstract for average citizen. So our primal urge of when there is a problem that we cannot confront, Hide in a deep dark cave and close the opening is in place. This urge means things like closed borders, doubling down on traditions, grouping together with people most similar to yourself. And basically try to reset society back to a time where you had felt good with.
The problem is our instincts are not the best course of action for the problem. It is like an opossum playing dead on a busy street. These are problems that require work, planning, sacrifice and thought to solve. Not a gut feeling.
But because it is so stressful many people gut feeling is a strong motivation.
Now in America Row v Wade and the Abortion debate with Region (a source strongly tied to old traditions) Democrats decided to go on the Pro-Choice side, while the Republicans went on the Pro-Life side. This connected many of the religious groups to the Republicans. Which lead to a lot of people who value traditions and the old way to that party. Turing its culture to what we see today.
The problem is in the US we mostly raise Horses as Pets, some farmers use them for utility purposes, such as ranching, but that can be replaced with ATV, however they keep Horses for mostly personal reasons, So eating them just seems wrong.
Except it is easy to turn up the marketing so everyone would want it.
Being the amount of meat you can get from one whale, it makes them a rather profitable target for hunting. The profit from a caught whale is worth upgrading a normal fishing ship to a whaling ship.
Exactly.
Unfortunately a lot of people who see the greats who break the rules, think they shouldn't follow them as well, and produce crap, because they don't understand the foundation on where to go. And others who are so strict on the rules, they lock themselves into the structure vs what is needed.
This is true for almost any topic, Programming, Music, Ligature, Public Speaking....
Steve Jobs was one of the great public speakers. He went on stage with a turtle neck, not a suite. (He use to wear a suite earlier in his career). Now one of the rules for public speaking is to dress professionally. But jobs broke that rule. Why?
Jobs knew what he was doing. He needed to separate Apple from the other computer companies. He needed to shows Apples trend towards the minimalist design. So he ditched the suite to help communicate that direction with Apple. This works for Job, but it wouldn't work if the CEO of IBM did it (even if he did it first). You need to know the rules, and if you are going to break them then you need to know why and how to do such. Notice how Job put in the Turtle Neck not a t-shirt he still needed a degree of professionalism (business causal) look like an artist, not a bum.
Not necessarily.
I think it is a good point that not all things can be safely studied and evaluated. Because of the morality of such choices.
For example Animal Testing. Different animals react differently to drugs, there could be a safe drug that cures a deadly illness in humans, that would just kill a rodent. But we cannot start testing on humans especially if shown would kill a rodent.
Proper science without the bonds of ethics, would jump straight to people and see what the results are. Pushing a person from an airplane without a parachute, so you have a baseline on the safety of a parachute. That way we have strict evidence.
However following the bounds of ethics there are some things we cannot truly identify.
This goes the same with politicians when talking about science. There "just isn't enough evidence" excuse, is often because to have enough evidence the problem would be impossible to fix.
I don't get it.